Stephen PIMBLEY

Stephen graduated from the Royal College of Art London in 1984 where he was a Gulbenkian scholar. He began his undergraduate professional caraeer at YRM in London, working on the North Terminal of Gatwick Airport. In 1985 he started work at Richard Rogers and Partners, contributing to the design, drawings and narrative of the seminal Rogers Foster Stirling exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1986.

In 1990, he joined Alsop and Lyall as Project Architect for the award-winning Hôtel du Département des Bouches du Rhône in Marseille. Stephen was promoted to Director in 1994 and Partner in 2000, primarily responsible for the company’s overseas projects. Following his time in Marseilles, he worked in Hamburg, Berlin and Rotterdam.

In 2000 Stephen set up Alsop’s Asia studios and designed Clarke Quay Singapore, winner of Cityscape Asia Best Waterfront development in 2008. In 2009, Stephen established Spark. He was responsible for the design of Raffles City Beijing and Raffles City Ningbo, all multiple-award winning projects. He now leads the design and thought leadership of the studios master planning, architecture and research projects including: Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, GRiD, Singapore, Hefei Steelworks master plan, Guangzhou Shipyard master plan and HomeFarm SPARK’s research into urban farming and aged care living, winner of the Experimental Future Category at World Architecture Festival in 2016.

Stephen has lectured extensively throughout Europe and Asia and has taught at universities in the UK, Germany, France, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Stephen is a registered architect in the UK and Singapore and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Stephen has designed projects for many of Asia’s premier real estate developers including: Capitaland, Gaw Capital, China Resources, CITIC, Lend Lease, Perennial, China Merchants, Vanke, Godrej Properties.